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NTSB Kicks Loose-Lipped Union Out of Train Inquiry

(NEWSER) – The National Transportation Safety Board has kicked the Association of Commuter Rail Employees out of its investigation of the Bronx train derailment, after a union lawyer said a little too much about it. Engineer William Rockefeller "basically nodded" at the controls, falling into "a daze," union general chairman Anthony Bottalico told the AP yesterday, after accompanying Rockefeller to his interview with the NTSB. He likened it to "what we all have when we drive a car … you sometimes have a momentary nod."